Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike myself, having been taught at an early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having stuck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes-in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step. I began to absorb the issues of the strike-ROTC. Afro-American Studies, expansion-and could see nothing objectionable and a lot of good in the positions...
...quite right."). But the best parts involve his never-ending feud with his superiors in Foggy Bottom. Wrote Galbraith in 1961, as tensions were rising between India and Pakistan: "One of our carriers brought twelve supersonic jets to Karachi, where they were unloaded in all the secrecy that would attend mass sodomy on the BMT at rush hour." On Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "He is so firmly fixed in my mind as a cautious, self-constricted man that I delight in actions that will disturb him." Concludes Galbraith: "The State Department has a sense of tradition. It believes that...
...five girls who attended the cookout are uniformly bright, efficient, fascinated by politics and cultishly pro-Kennedy. None is strikingly attractive, and as a group they are hardly the sort that older men would invite for a weekend of dalliance. From the beginning, they have intended to go to the inquest. Explains one: "My God, can you imagine what the reaction would be if we refused to attend? The great coverup, right? We'll all be there, if for no other reason than to defend the reputation of Mary Jo." All of the girls were scheduled to spend...
...wonders, would people think he might have invented such a story? The public attitude, of course, is to wonder why Kennedy left so many odd details-such as the swim to Edgartown-unexplained. In private, Kennedy also marvels that anyone could imagine him so stupid as to attend a sex orgy in his own state, accompanied by a middle-aged chauffeur and girls from his own and his late brother's staff...
Ticket sales for the Baez concert are "forging right ahead," a spokesman said last night. He declined to estimate how many were likely to attend the concert--"If I could predict that I'd make a fortune just predicting"--but added that "realistically, we're prepared for about...